{"id":358,"date":"2020-06-06T16:09:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T16:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/Delta\/?p=358"},"modified":"2020-07-21T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T10:10:08","slug":"afghan-maternity-ward-attack-the-woman-nursing-the-babies-of-murdered-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/afghan-maternity-ward-attack-the-woman-nursing-the-babies-of-murdered-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan maternity ward attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong> The woman nursing the babies of murdered mothers<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Firooza Omar was at home when she heard about last week&#8217;s deadly attack.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-52642503\">Militants had stormed the maternity ward of the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul<\/a>, killing at least 24 people, including newborns, mothers and nurses.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;I was breastfeeding my own child and I got emotional. I could see the suffering of these other babies,&#8221; the 27-year-old psychiatrist says.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As the mother of a four-month-old boy, she decided to help in a way she was uniquely placed to, and volunteered to nurse babies whose mothers had been killed or injured.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>With the support of her husband, who agreed to look after their child while she was away, Firooza travelled to the nearby Ataturk Children&#8217;s Hospital, where around 100 rescued women and children had been taken.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Although the hospital is 2km (a mile-and-a-quarter) from her home, the journey remained risky in a city left traumatised and fearful by the brutal attack.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman nursing the babies of murdered mothers Firooza Omar was at home when she heard about last week&#8217;s deadly attack. Militants had stormed the maternity ward of the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least 24 people, including newborns, mothers and nurses. &#8220;I was breastfeeding my own child and I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabawoon.af\/fm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}